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@bontwoody the non standard part of my house is that it is an old stone building with 600mm thick walls some of which are external but due to two exte...
@ashp-bobba I think the starting point was soaking up the patsy who qualified for the £10K grant in 2020 and then added more....I have learned to figh...
The advantage being that the unit is in the sun for most of the year (morning sun) so any chance of a bit of extra heat in the air might offset a bit ...
Thanks for the video. The important sentence was that external pipework in the insulating tube loses 7watts of heat per linear metre. Making the loss ...
I will have to guess that it will be 45C in the depths of winter but it is more complicated than just a new install.I intend to heat part of my house,...
I have many spreadsheets full of heat loss data, all diffferent, all dependent on the guess work of experts, none of which are trustworthy or beleavea...
@derek-m I've been trying to think of a solution to this. Apparently the inner wall and outer stone is not suitable for cavity insulation. I was wonde...
@sunandair "Quite how they manage to provide a quote (not an estimate) on very scanty details collected online is quite beyond me. Maybe it is so t...
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Now posting on the right topic.... With general build...
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